Last weekend was pretty quiet with not a whole lot getting accomplished. Jennifer is getting ready for the Lake Bonavista Craft Fair this weekend (November 20th and 21st) so has been cutting out a bunch of slipper bottoms. Hopefully it will be a good one and she will sell a bunch of slippers and raise lots of money for the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta.
Late Monday night the snow started; I think we can now say that winter has arrived. We have had snow pretty steady from Monday night through until now (Thursday night) and the temperature has been heading steadily down. Tonight the low is -23 without the wind chill and -29 with the wind. Of course the kids have loved the fact that we now have snow and have been out playing in it lots. Ryley is building snow caves and forts and Karlee loves going for sled rides to take Ryley to school. Mom isn't so excited about this weather as the roads are not in good shape and most people in Calgary don't know how to drive. The first morning she left the bus yard 15 minutes early and was over 30 minutes late getting to her first stop. Then it took over an hour to do a 10 minute drive down Deerfoot. Each day have gotten a little better, but the roads are still a mess and with the City of Calgary snow removal policy, will be until there is a chinook.
Tuesday night Ryley's team had another hockey game. It was a homecoming for Dad as they were playing at Lake Bonavista where Dad played all his hockey. The locker rooms haven't changed, but they have made a few upgrades to the benches and time keepers box. This game was a much better match up and the two teams had a very close battle through the entire game. Ryley's team got their first win of the year with a hard fought 4-3 victory. The team also got their jackets Tuesday night and all looked very sharp in the new garb.
Wednesday afternoon Karlee seemed to want to see if she could run a temperature. After several higher than normal readings everything started to come back down on its own so we didn't have to call the hospital. Wednesday night Karlee had to go for a walk; not sure why, but she was very adamant that we go out for a walk. So in -23 degree weather we bundled everyone up and headed over to the wetlands for a short walk. There were about half a dozen ducks at the north end of the wetlands, in the storm water outflow, looking very, very cold. Hopefully the water coming out of the drain stays warm enough to stop that end from freezing or the ducks get smart enough and fly south soon. Karlee had a good ride in the sled and did a little walking just to prove she can still do it.
Thursday morning Karlee was again trying to run a fever. Finally at 9:30 and 10:00am we got two consistent readings of 38.3 which means it is time to call JoJo, our primary care nurse. Of course she told us to come up and have it checked out. Dad took Karlee up there and it only took about 90 minutes to do the 30 minutes drive. They were out of room in the clinic so we got an isolation room. Dad was always a little leery about being separated and ignored, but these rooms give you a ton of room and your own private bathroom.
Of course by the time we got to the hospital her temperature had come down. They accessed Karlee and took blood for a CBC and cultures and then started a slow flow for fluids just to keep the port running. After almost 2 hours they came back and told us that her counts were normal and they weren't concerned about her about the small spike in her temperature. They told us to keep an eye on her and make sure her activity level stays normal and that her temperature doesn't climb back up. Hopefully everything is going to stay normal and we can have a weekend at home and she can go back for her normal clinic day on Monday to get her chemotherapy.
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